Professor, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Professor Spencer is a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and distinguished expert in the field of civil engineering, mainly focusing on intelligent structures. He pioneered research and development of smart dampers based on magnetorheological fluid technology, enabling the world’s first engineering application. He made breakthroughs in open-source hardware/software architectures for wireless sensor technology for structural heath monitoring and achieved the world’s largest implementation of smart sensors. He led the National Science Foundation’s Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) system integration project and built the most advanced real-time hybrid simulation load and boundary condition system. He has also developed computationally-efficient solutions for topology optimization of stochastically excited structures. He has published more than 360 papers and been cited 40,855 times with h-index of 82. He has been selected as "Global Highly Cited Scholar in Civil Engineering" by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy and Elsevier. Professor Spencer has received numerous awards, including the ASCE Outstanding Instructor Award, the ASCE Norman Medal, the ASCE Housner Structural Control and Monitoring Medal, the ASCE Newmark Medal, the Zhu Kezhen International Lectureship Award, the ANCRiSST Outstanding Senior Investigator Award, the Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year Award, the J.M. Ko Medal of Advances in Structural Engineering, IASCM Takuji Kobori Prize, and the Raymond & Sidney Epstein Structural Engineering Faculty Award. Professor Spencer is a Fellow of ASCE, a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the North American Editor in Chief of Smart Structures and Systems, the Executive Managing Editor of the journal of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, and the past president of the Asia-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structures Technology. Finally, he is the Chair of the US-China Earthquake Engineering Foundation and has hosted more than 120 Chinese students and scholars to work in his laboratory, which are now making important contributions to the improvement and internationalization of civil engineering in China.

Societal Risk & Hazard Mitigation, Structural Engineering